Summary: A health coach's use of motivational interviewing (MI) can pave the way to a partnership resulting in an individual's behavior change, explains Kristin S. Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., L.P., a clinical health psychologist at the Mayo Clinic and medical director of its EmbodyHealth coaching program. Frequently called upon to employ MI in her practice as well as train health coaches in the technique, Dr. Vickers Douglas describes the dimensions of MI and its value in determining and reacting to an individual's readiness to change. Dr. Vickers Douglas, along with Mike Casey, senior director of Mayo Clinic Health Management Resources, provide an update on Mayo's health coaching initiatives --- including its increasing utilization of MI and integration of Web 2.0 technologies in the newly updated Coaching in the Healthcare Continuum: Models, Methods, Measurements and Motivation, Second Edition.
